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PATENTED MAR. .1, 1904.

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APPLIOATIOH FILED AUG. 31, 1903.

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WITNESSES? Patented. Ketch i, 1904.

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MARY L. @GLE, Gil CQVTNGTOl-l, KENTUCKY.

BTEGIFIGATIGN ionising part of Letters Fatent 23o. ?53,302 dated March 1, 1904.

Application filed August 31, 1908.

To will whom if; may concern:

Be it known th tl, MARY L. Gone, e citizen of the United .1 mes, and resident of the city of Covington, in the county of Kenton end State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and usefullmprovenients in Mail-Boxes. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to mail-boxes; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of the parts thereof, as will he more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

One object of my invention is to provide a mail-box containing two or more subcompertments adapted to enable the postman oy opening e single door to uncover the entrances of the suocompartnients or suhboxes, and thus conveniently place the mail in these subcompartments, and after this door is closed also to enable the person who is entitled to the use of one of these subcompartments to reach the latter through a door adapted to givethe said owner or user access to that one of these suocompartments to which he is entitled to hen/e admission, but preventing his access to any other suhcompartmcnt.

Another object of my invention is to provide in connection with the means already outlined abox for the reception of the outgoing mail.

Still another object of my inventfuznv is to make the same door to he opened lay the postmen of such construction that it shall afford the postman access to the compartment which receives the outgoing mail and to the suhcompartments thatare to receive the incoming mail.

The several features of my invention and the various advantages, some of which. have already been alluded to, resulting from the use conjointly or otherwise of these features will be fully set forth in the description and claims.

1 will now proceed to describe my inventiori in detail.

In the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, and in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, Figure 1 represents in perspective a mailbox emhodyingmy invention, a door of one of the subcompartmeuts being open for Serial lie. 171,418. (lilo modelil illustration. Fig. 2 represents in perspective the same mail-box, but opened, so that the suhcompartments are uncovered. This figure shows the door to the compartm nt wherein the outgoing mail is received as open. Fig. 3 is a view in perspective .of a section of a mail-box, illustrating a mode of hinging the suhdoors of the subcompartments slide:- out from that shown in Fig. 1. Fig! 4; represents in perspective two modes of locating the suhdoor oi a subcompartment relative to the large door which closes all of such suhcompartments. Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the top of the box.

A indicates a. mail-box of suitable size and shape. This box contains subcompartments 3, each adopted to receive the mail destined for the owner or.user of the said subcompartment. In front of these subcompartments B is a large door C, adapted when shut to close the entrances by which the postman can deliver mail to each of the subcompertments.

private use of a subsets-pertinent to reach said subcompartmeut 1s as fol-lows: In the large door I locate subdoors B", one for each sub. compartment. Each subdoor B, vwhen the large door is closed, alines with and covers the entrance to its adjacent suhcompartment, but does not give admittance to any other. Two other modes for enabling the private use of a subcompartment are illustrated in Fig. 4. One of these consists in locating the private door of a suhcompertment at the side ofthe compartment, es suggestively illustrated by the dotted lines B of that figure. The other of these niodes consists in locating a subdoor B in front of a suhcompartment. These sub doors B each covers only a portion of the mouth or entrance of their respective subcompartments. The main door (1 is in such construction preferably made to cover substautially only that portion of the entrances to the subcompartments that are not covered by the suhdoors B. (See Fig. 4.) In each of these various constructions there exist subcompsrtmeuts to receive distributed mail and a large door adapted when shut to cover the entrances to all suhcompartmeuts. Subdoors to enable the users of the respective subconr ring the cap E",

partmentsto use the desired 1 etio'n.

While t 1e feeturesof invention elreadydescribed are of great value and utility and may he used alone withoht the feature now to be described. nevertheless the feature now to he described is preferably used wi h those already particularly specified,.end their )3 the utility of the constructions thus intimately combine is greatly increased. This edditional construction is as follows: in the upper part of the mail-ho is n compartment E for receiving the letters, paclroges,sno other mat ter to be mailed. Such outgoing mail-matter is introduced into the compartment E by liftusua-lly pivoted behind, and rising". as shown, (see Fig. 2,) and laying the matter or things to be mailed on the hinged door E hinged at its front edge to the slotted frame A of the mail-box, which frame is ar ranged directly above and extends across the large upper compartment of the box. The door E is pivotelly connected to the hinged cap E by the end bars E This construction of the cap E bars E is an old and well-known construction in common use.

I leave all or aportion of the i'rontot' the compartment E open, and I extend the C so that when it (the door C) is closed it will cover the opening E of the front of the compertinent E. Thus the doorC when shut will close the open entrances to the subcommitments B and to the compartment ilfhet part of the door C which closes the compartments B may be indicated by the char? tor 3 and that part of the door which clos...

compartment Erney be indicated by the citaer actor C.

The snhdoors may be hinged or 0th properly secured at any one or more o edges, desired. One suchchengei nectiou to the large door, diii'ering from shown in Fig. 1., is illustrated invFig. The hinges illustrated for the suodoorsfi are indicated by the letter H niid the hinges of the large door by the letter H; but any other suitable kind or 'kindsof hinge may be employed. Such obvious changes do not invol. tion and are deemed sufiiciently ili tre said Fig". 3.

The large door may he swung; out cider is e,

r as is the case in common doors or may swing up or down.

The mailbox and its parts may be of any suitable materiel or materials.

Of course the large door and. the subdoors will ordinarily be provided with locks, and these locks may be those which have keys, or they may be keyless locks, of which latter what are known as combination disk locks are one kind. In other Words, any suitable locks may be employed. v

The compartments and the joints between them and the doors are preferably dust-proof.

hinged door E and pivoted therefrom, a

some are present eta l and when the box is located out of doors the compartments and said joints should he rainp-roof and snowprooi.

- 'ihe specific construction at the innction'of the side and the top bottom c the compartments and of the, between the doors and said comp tn'ients are 1 the dr I are shown in Li ig. 1, and locks if in Fig.9, reonectirel, in connection With-the snlidoors on the box A; and :2. padlock F- the door when closed to the box liars shown.

These by the roadside, so that the carrier can easily obtain to it without dismount-log from "ingethe hey-holes ll. of locks? mail boxes or sietiousrnsy he placed one a hesp P on the doorU, en'eye for locking;

his vehicle, as unlocking and opening the post mous leie door at the side of the box ives access to all of the compartments onoe' I'deil (llStIilQHllQd to the individoed boxes d removed from the opp-oz: Fins requiring but littietime collecting mail for a. dozen or more femiopened with removed by the the carrier and t snatch in obtaining the nieils. v

'lfhis invention ispertioulo'riy useful for ts. hoerdinghooses, hotel's, snhur oen towns. l g s, end subdivisions delivery but adjoin it delivers? renter boxes served; from one to ii. pert nent being trolled e of the owner contents indridnel, thus 'v'lflg both Each box contains compartments, each coinhy on individual who has his own'key to all of the oompairtments at once by r value to the carrier and Government as the meonsthrongh which etfieient and rim hid service con be given along the rnrnl routes throughout United Especislly is to 3 invent Veniencc et mm 4 J, annuities,

ares the one inc suhdoor of a given 'suhcoinpertment is he-distr'ibntees ease and do that have no free The m is in occorda nee with the sizecomnortment, in distributing s lettenhox owned or con-' opening one door is of immeasurable partment independent thereof formed across the upper portion of the body of the box, and a door hinged to the box and adapted to close curved extensmall doors mounted therein, each adapted to close one of the small compartments, and being provided with a curved upper portion adapted to engage the slot-frame to close the the front thereof, and having a upper large compartment, substantially-as desion thereon adapted to close the top of the scribed. box and the upper compartment, substantially as described. I

4. In a device of the character described, the combination with the body of a mail-box, of a series of small compartments arranged therein, a large compartment extending entirely across the top of the box above the small compartments, a main door provided with a series of independent small doors for the small compartments, d extension formed upon the upper portion of said door adapted to close the upper compartment upon closing the door, substantially as described In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARY L. OGLE.

a mail-box, a body having its front and a portion of the top open, small compartments formed in said body, a large compartment in said body formed abovethe small compart-ments extending across the entire upper portion of the bodyof the box, aslot-frame arranged above the large compartment, drop means carried thereby normally adapted to cover the slot thereo a main door having a series of smalldoors therein adapted to close the small compartments when the main door is closed, and means projecting above said door adapted to close the top of the box and the upper compartment upon closing of the door, said means adapted to engage the slot-frame and lie beneath the drop means, substantially as described.

3. In combination with a mail-box having Attest: I an open front and partiallyopen top, a series A. E. STICKLETT,

large upper com- K. SMITH.

of small compartments, a 

